Improvement in lamp-shades



s. w. HUNTINGTON. Lamp Shade.

No. 76,921. I Patented April 21, 1868.

guitar giants igtttent @ffire- SAMUEL W 'HUNTINGT'O-N, OF AUGUSTA, MAINE.

Letters Patent No. 76,921, datedAprz'l 21, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN LAMP-SHADES.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME:

Bejt known that I, SAMUEL W. HUNTINGTON, of Augusta, in the county of Kennebec, and State of Maine have invented a new and useful Improvement in Lamp-Shades; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact'description thereof, due reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, and in which-- I Figure 1 is'a vertical section of a circular lamp-shade.

Figure 2 'is a section of a fiat shade, showing the application of a spring-clamp, of novel formation, for attaching the shade to the lamp.

Figure 3 being a perspective view of the said springmlamp.

Fig. 1, of the accompanying drawings, represents a circular, and fig, 2a flatlamp-shade, the paper body of which is shown at a as made substantially in the usual form and manner, the sheet of mice, with which the shade is lined, being shown at b, and is confined to the shade in any suitable manner. a, in fig. 3 of the drawings, shows a spring-clamp, or device, for holding a flat lamp-shade in place upon a chimney, or the glass shade or globe now generally employed with gas-burners.

This spring-clamp is .struck up from a strip, a', of brass, in such manner as to form, upon one end, and for about half its length, a tongue, d, this tongue to be bent with respect to the slot 0, from which it is cut, in such manner that its free and shall form, with the body of the strip a, a spring-clamp, to clasp opposite sides of the shade, and hold the device securely thereto.

For securing the clamp, in turn, to the lamp-chimney or globe, I make two scores upon each side of the opposite end of thestrip'a, thus forming two arms or fingers, ff, whichI subsequently bend at right angles, or thereabouts, to the-strip, and parallel to each otherjas shown in figs. 2 and 3 of the drawings, the extremity of the strip itself being bent into a hook, g, to hook over upon the upper edge of the lamp-chimney or globe," and which serves to suspend the shade, a, from the chimney, while the fingers ff, by hearing against the sides of the chimney or globe," serve as braces or supports to maintain the shade at an angle with such chimney, the degrees of this angle, of course, being governed by the length of the fingersff, or by bending them more orless. r

I do not claim a shade-clasp made as described in the patent of James Emery, July 9, 1867, for such holder is provided with no means whereby it can be readily applied to or detached from the shade; .but

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A lamp-shade clasp or clamp, struck up from'a single piece of sheet metal, in the manner herein described, so that one end of the clasp shall be provided with a spring-tongue or clamp, bent in the manner specified, for holding the shade, and the opposite end with a hook and arms for maintaining the clasp and shade in position upon the lamp-chimney or globe, substantially as shown and set forth. I

s. W. HUNTINGTON. Witnesses:

FRED. CURTIS, O. W. BALDWIN. 

